We read this in the ninetieth
Psalm, but there the prophecy is not about Christ, but about a holy man. The
devil, therefore, interprets the Scripture badly. Indeed, if he knew that it
was really written about the Saviour, he ought to have said what follows in the
same Psalm and which is directed against himself: ‘You will walk upon the asp
and the basilisk, and you will trample underfoot the lion and the dragon.’ He
speaks of the help of the angels as if to one who is weak; like an equivocator,
he is silent about the fact that he is trampled under. (Bede,
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke [trans. Calvin B. Kendall and Faith
Wallis; Translated Texts for Historians 85; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2025], 217)
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